320 Gigapixel Image Taken of London by British Telecom.

How well do you know the landmarks of London? Get up close and personal with a stunning 320-gigapixel image of the city captured atop the BT Tower.

Snapped by panorama experts 360Cities, the epic photography endeavor required the use of four Canon 7D dSLR cameras outfitted with some heavy-duty equipment.

Each camera used an EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens, Extender EF 2x III teleconverter, and a Rodeon VR Head ST robotic panorama head. After shooting 48,640 individual pictures over the course of three days (shortly after the 2012 Olympics), 360Cities spent the next several months assembling and stitching together the final gargantuan image.

To access the larger-than-life 360-degree panorama of London, simply click here or use the embedded panorama above. You can easily spot many familiars such as The Shard, London Eye, and Tower Bridge once you get moving.

You'll quickly notice that it's easy to clearly see nearly anything (or anyone) located many miles from the BT Tower. You almost feel like Big Brother after five minutes of looking. Pro tip: for maximum zoom, keep hitting the plus zoom button. Even if the slider bar indicates you've gone all the way you can actually go farther.

If printed out on paper, the 320-gigapixel super shot would stretch out 323 feet wide and stand 77 feet tall -- nearly the same size as Buckingham Palace

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 specifications

Samsung, on the eve of Mobile World Congress, has announced the Galaxy Note 8.0. It's a mid-size phone/tablet hybrid. The international (read: Non-U.S.) version will be able to make phone calls. (Though Samsung -- and we as well -- recommend doing so with a headset and not by holding it up to your head.)

                                                                Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0

The Galaxy Note 8.0 specs are nothing to sneeze at. It's powered by a quad-core Exynos processor running at 1.6 GHz, has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3MP shooter out front.  It's running Samsung's TouchWiz customizations on top of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.

Most important, however, is the inclusion of (and improvements to) the S Pen stylus, which brings about a world of functionality not found in any other tablets at this point.

Also new is the inclusion of an "IR blaster," which is a sexy name for an infrared port on the side of the Note 8.0 that, thanks to the Peel application, lets you control your TV and other IR-enabled devices from the comfort and safety of your couch.

Full Specifications :

• Processor: 1.6 GHz quad-core Exynos
• Display: 8-inch WXGA display (1280x800 at 189 ppi)
• Operating system: Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
• Network: HSPA+ 21Mbps (850/900/1900/2100)
• Camera: 5 megapixel (rear), 1.3-megapixels (front)
• Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX (1080p full HD video @ 30 fps)
• Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AC3, FLAC; 3.5mm headphone jack
• GPS: aGPS + GLONASS (3G version)
• Connectivity: 802.11 a/b/g/n 2.4 and 5 GHz; WiFi Direct; AllShareCast; Bluetooth 4.0; USB 2.0
• Sensors: Accelerometer; Digital compass; Proximity sensor
• Memory/Storage: 2GB RAM, 32/64GB storage; microSD card (up to 64 GB)
• Dimensions: 210.8 x 135.9 x 7.95
• Weight: 338 grams
• Battery: 4,600 mAh
• S Pen optimized features: S Note, S Planner, e-mail with handwriting integration; Quick Command; Easy Clip; Photo Note; Paper Artist; Air View; Popup Note; Popup Video; Shape Match; Formula Match; Idea Sketch
• Sharing Features: AllShare Play; AllShare Cast (Wifi Display mirroring and extension); AllShare Framework

Content, features and services

• Samsung Apps
• Samsung Kies/Kies Air
• TouchWiz/Samsung Live Panel
• Samsung Hub; Game Hub; Learning Hub; Readers Hub; Music Hub; Video Hub; Media Hub (U.S. Only)
• Samsung ChatOn mobile communication service (version 2.0)
• Smart Stay, Direct Call
• Page Buddy/Tag Buddy/Word Buddy
• Google Search
• Google Maps
• Gmail
• Google Latitude
• Google Play Store
• Google Play Books
• Google Play Movies
• Google Plus
• YouTube
• Google Talk
• Google Places
• Google Navigation
• Google Downloads

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New HTC One – The first Smartphone to have 4 MP ultrapixel Camera

Last week HTC launched its 2013 flagship smartphone, the HTC One. Previously rumored as M7, The HTC One will be a competitor to not only devices in the market right now like Samsung galaxy 3and iPhone 5, but also to future devices.

This high-end HTC device is the first Smartphone to house 4.0 MP ultrapixel camera in it. Now before you think anything after looking at the Mega-pixels, Let me tell you that this 4 MP camera can produce much higher quality images than even 12 MP cameras. The HTC One’s camera feature 3 sensors of 4.3 MP each, which allows you to capture 300% more light that gives dramatic increase in photo clarity, contrast and detail.

With this phone, HTC has taken a step away from the the typical mega pixel war in the market. Although the camera is just 4 megapixels, The sensor is bigger than that in some compact cameras. This ensures that the picture quality is high.

Here’s the complete Camera Specifications:

Sensor Size and Type:	1/3″ BSI CMOS
Resolution:	4.0 MP 16:9 Aspect Ratio (2688 x 1520)
Focal Length:	3.82mm
F/#:	F/2.0
Optical System:	5P
OIS:	2-axis +/- 1 degree, 2 kHz sampling
Max Capture Rate:	8 FPS continual full res capture
Video Capture:	1080p30, 720p60, 720p30, 1080p28 HDR, 768×432 96FPS H.264 High Profile, 20 Mbps

The bigger pixels mean that more light is captured and, thus, the images taken from the phone have lesser noise. HTC One also has Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) that reduces chances of blurry images. Due to F2 lens and OIS, Low-light imaging capability of HTC One is outstanding.

HTC One v/s iPhone 5 (photo samples):

Apart from stunning Camera, The HTC one features a 4.7 inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display, powered by a 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It also features new HTC Sense UI and HTC BlinkFeed. Along with 4 MP ultrapixel camera on the back, it also has a 2.1 MP HD front-facing camera with HD video calling capability.

HTC has introduced a new feature called BlinkFeed in HTC One, which is quite similar to Flipboard. The company has partnered with various magazines and newspapers to offer content to the users from a single hub. It also boasts of social media integration, so users can view all updates without leaving the app.

Speaking about Sound, HTC One houses 2 frontal speakers that deliver output of 93 decibels. On the other hand top selling smartphones i the market like Samsung Galaxy S III offers output of 75 decibels and iPhone 5′s sound output is 66 decibels. The audio quality is enhanced by the integration of HTC’s BoomSound technology in the stereo speakers and BeatsAudio to ensure superior headphone audio quality.

Quick Specifications of HTC One:

Dimensions:	137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 mm (Weighs 148g)
Screen:	4.7-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display with 468ppi
Processor:	1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor
Memory:	2 GB RAM, 32GB / 64GB internal memory
Camera:	4MP UltraPixel rear camera with BSI Sensor and Optical Image Stabilization ,F2.0 aperture and 28 mm lens, Full HD (1080p) video recording with HDR Video, 2 MP HD front-facing camera
Sound:	3.5 mm headset jack, Beats audio support
Connectivity:	4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX codec, DNLA, MHL, GPS with GLONASS
Battery:	2300 mAh battery
OS:	Android 4.1 Jellybean with HTC BlinkFeed , HTC Zoe,HTC BoomSound
NFC:	Yes

HTC has not yet revealed any exact international market release date or the price of the handset. It will be available in over 85 countries and 180 operators across the world from March. Right now The UK retailer is indicating a March 15 release. The quoted price by them is a cool 425 GBP excluding VAT.

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10 Essential Firefox Extensions

Clipmarks
Ever wish you could "clip" a piece of a Web page the way you'd tear an article from a magazine? Clipmarks lets you do exactly that, then tag, store, organize, and share your clips. The site's simple toolbar is available for both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Download Now

DownThemAll 1.0
This download manager lets you speed up, queue, and batch downloads from the Web based on your previously defined patterns. Download Now

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 1.0.1
Foxmarks synchs your bookmarks among different PCs and operating systems, making it perfect for getting your office and home bookmark libraries in harmony. Download Now

FoxyTunes 2.96
FoxyTunes can control any of over 30 media players (including iTunes, Musicmatch Jukebox, and Windows Media Player) straight from the browser window. Artist and track information, play controls, and a slider to adjust volume are presented discreetly in your browser. Download Now

Gmail Manager 0.5.4
This extension that lets you manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail announcements as a pop-up on your status bar, eliminating the need to keep Gmail open in a separate window. Download Now

Googlepedia 0.5.1
Googlepedia shows you the most relevant Wikipedia article alongside your Google search results. Download Now

Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey lets you customize the way Web pages look and work. There are hundreds of scripts available for free, allowing for a huge variety of customization. Download Now

Reload Every
This extension allows you to program Firefox to refresh all open tabs, or one tab, after a set amount of time. It's especially useful for monitoring very active forums. Download Now

Session Manager
Session Manager lets you save the layout and addresses of all your tabs when you shut down Firefox, allowing you to keep that same layout when you open the browser up again. Download Now

Tree Style Tab 0.6.2
As the name suggests, this extension allows you to have a tree-style tab bar, like the folder-view tree that's used in Windows Explorer.Download Now

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How to Copy Text from a Protected Web Page

Sometimes websites have a security feature in place that protects the text of the website to prevent users from stealing site content. But websites aren't around forever and sometimes users may want to download the site content as referenced material for future use, in case the site goes down. The text may also be needed if the material in question is being used as a direct quote and is properly cited and sourced. The method to copy protected text described here has the highest rate of success, but there are other ways to copy content from protected web pages

Instructions to copy text :

1. Navigate to the site you wish to copy text from.
2. View the source code. The approach to this differs depending on what browser you are using. For Firefox, go to the 'View' menu and select "Page Source." In Internet Explorer, locate the "Page" menu and select "View Source" from the menu. If you are using Google Chrome, right-click on the page and select "View Page Source."
3. Within the page source, look for the <body> </body> tags. The majority of the site content should be within these two tags.
4. Copy and paste the content into a word processing program such as Wordpad or Microsoft Word. You may need to clean up some HTML formatting that may be in the text, such as <p>, <u>, <bold>, and other similar tags. Simply delete these from the text.
5. Title and save the document on your computer. File the document away in an appropriate folder for future reference.

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Amazing Unknown facts about Internet

1.The English once took it to be an alphabet. The Chinese affectionately term it ‘the little mouse’. The Dutch call it an ‘elephant’s trunk’, the Germans a spider monkey, the Italians as a snail. It is ‘&amp;’

2. The inspiration for the brand name Yahoo! Came from a word made up by Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver’s Travels. A Yahoo was a person who was ugly and not a human in appearance.  

3. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare, is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know the HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, the submit button was a later addition and initially, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

4. Sweden has the highest percentage of its population i.e. 76.9 per cent hooked on to the Internet. In contrast, the world average is 11.9 per cent and India has a poor 7.2 per cent. 

5. The Dilbert Zone was the first comic website on the Internet.  

6. A resident of Tonga could have the rights to register domains ending in .to as Tongo’s Internet code is .to. Such possibilities are fun to consider: travel.to or go.to.  

7. The day after Internet Explorer 4 was released, a few Microsoft employees left a 10 by 12-foot Internet Explorer logo on Netscape’s front lawn with a message that said “We love you” at the height of the browser wars in the late 90’s.  

8. The world ‘e-mail’ has been banned by the French Ministry of culture. They are required to use the word ‘Courriel’ instead, which is the French equivalent of Internet. This move became the subject of ridicule from the cyber community in general.  

9. Did you know that www.symbolics.com was the first ever domain name registered online?  

10. According to a University of Minnesota report, researchers estimate the volume of Internet traffic is growing at an annual rate of 50 to 60 per cent.  

11. The term Internet and World Wide Web are often used in every-day speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.  

12. In February 2009, Twitter had a monthly growth (of users) of over 1300 per cent several times more than Facebook.  

13. The first graphical Web browser to become truly popular was Marc Andresen and Jamie Zawinski’s NCSA Mosaic. It was the first browser made available for Window’s, Mac and Unix X windows System with the first version appearing in MARCH 1993.  

14. The cost of transmitting information has fallen dramatically. A trillion bits of information from Boston to Los Angeles from $150,000 in 1970 to 12 cents today. E-mailing a 40 page document from Chile to Kenya costs less than 10 cents, faxing it about $10, sending it by courier $50.  

15. The typical Internet user worldwide is young, male and wealthy – a member of an elite minority.  

16. The average total cost of using a local dialup Internet account for 20 hours a month and USD 60 a month in the US. The average African monthly salary is less than USD 60.  

17. Before they can read, almost one in four children in nursery school are learning a skill that even some adults have yet to master: using the Internet, about 23per cent of children in nursery school – kids age 3,4 or 5 – have gone online.  

18. at the end of the 20th century, 90 per cent of data on Africa was stored in Europe and the United States.  

19. Facebook now has 24 million users who spend an average of 14 minutes on the site every time they visit. This is up from 8 minutes last September, according to Hit wise, a traffic   measuring service.
   20. MySpace has 67 million numbers - nearly 3 times as many as Facebook! MySpace users spend an average of 30 minutes on the site each time they visit.  

21. if you want to sell your book on amazon.com you can set the price, but then they will take 55 per cent cut and leave you with only 45 per cent.  

22. R Tomlinson was the first person on records to have sent an email. His email address was: <a href="mailto:tom-linson@bbn.tenexa">tom-linson@bbn.tenexa</a>. He had invented this software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. He is also credited with the use of the @ in email addresses.  

23. Counting only domain name sites with content, Netcraft has tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and says of the 100 million; around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000 web sites in existence.  

24. On the internet, a ‘bastion host’ is the only host computer that a company allows to be addressed directly from the public network.  

25. Around 1 per cent of the world’s 650 million corporate e-mail accounts are plugged into hardware and software that forwards incoming messages to a mobile device. And about 3.65 million of them us a Blackberry.  

26. Almost half of people online have at least three e-mail accounts. In addition the average consumer has maintained the same e-mail address for four to six years.  

27. Spam accounts for over 60 per cent of all email, according to Message Labs. Google says at least one third of all Gmail servers are filled with spam.  

28. Yahoo started out as “Jerry and David’s guide to the world Wide Web”. Jerry Yang and David Filo were PhD candidates at Stanford in 1994 when they started the site.  

29. The first Web browser was already capable of downloading and displaying movies, sounds and any file type supported by the operating system.  

30. ‘Carnivore’ is the Internet surveillance system developed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who developed it to monitor the electronic transmissions of criminal suspects. 

31. Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spam (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21, 2005.  

32. A NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee was the world’s first web server.  

33. The first web site was built at CERN. CERN is the French acronym for European Council for Nuclear Research and is located at Geneva, Switzerland. 

34. The World Wide Web is the most extensive implementation of the hypertext but it is not the only one. A computer help file is actually a hypertext document.  

35. The concept of style sheets was already in place when the first browser was released.   36. Worldwide Web was programmed with Objective C.  

37. Hypertext is implemented in the web as links in the browser window. Links are references to text that the user wants to access. When a link is clicked the referenced text is displayed or brought into focus.  

38. The address of the world’s first web server is http://info.cern.ch The URL of the first web page was  "http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html". Although this page is not hosted anymore at CERN, a later version of the page is posted at  "http://www.w3.org/History/199921103hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html"

39. In December 1991, the first institution in the US to adopt the web was the Stanford Linear Accelerator center (SLAC). True to the Berners-Lee vision, it was used to display an   online catalog of SLAC’s documents.  

40. Marc Andreessen started Netscape and released Netscape Navigator in 1994. during the height of its popularity, Netscape Navigator accounted for almost 90 per cent of all web use.  

41. The first browser that made the web available to PC and Mac users was Mosaic. It was developed by National Center for Supercomputing (NCSA) led by Marc Andreessen in February, 1993. Mosaic was one of the first graphical web browsers and led to an explosion in web use.  

42. April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely.  

43. Microsoft released Internet Explorer on 1995. This event initiated the browser wars. By bundling internet explorer with the Windows operating system, by 2002, Internet Explorer became the most dominant web browser with a market share over 95 per cent.  

44. It was in the Conference Dinner in May 26, 1994 where the first Best of WWW awards were given. It was by pure coincidence that the jazz band that played during the awards was called “Wolfgang and the Were Wolves”.  

45. Only 4 per cent of Arab women use the Internet. Moroccan women represent almost a third of that figure.  

46. As of July 2009, Microsoft Internet Explorer accounted for 67.68 per cent of all browsers used Mozilla Firefox was used by 22.47 per cent of all users.  

47. The development of standards for the World Wide Web is managed by the W3C or the World Wide Web consortium. The W3C was founded in October, 1994 and headed by Tim Berners-Lee.  

48. The first White House website was launched during the Clinton-Gore administration on October 21, 1994. Coincidentally, the site www.whitehouse.com linked to a pornography web site.  

49. Open source technology dominates the web. The most common software used for web serving is called LAMP standing for the Linux operating system, apache web server, MySql database and PHP scripting language.  

50. The “www” part of a web site (www.google.com) is optional and is not required by any web policy or standard.  

51. Despite IPv4’s 4.3 billion unique addresses, it is forecasted that by 2011, the address space will be consumed. A newer scheme called IPv6 is slowly replacing IPv4 in some countries. IPv6 has the capability to address 2128 computers. to give perspective to this very big number, the world's population of 6.5 billion people as of 2006 can be given 295 unique addresses.  

52. YouTube's bandwidth requirements to upload and view all those videos cost as much as 1 million dollars a day and drawing. The revenues generated by YouTube cannot pay for   its upkeep. 

53. The blue colored links on a web page is just a browser default because way back on the days when monitors only had 16 colours, blue was the darkest colour that did not affect text legibility.  

54. All three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.  

55. Around 75 per cent of the music that is available for download has never been purchased and it is costing money just to be on the server.  

56. One million domain names are registered every month.  

57. According to AT&amp;T vice president Jim Cicconi, 8 hours of video is uploaded into YouTube every minute. This was on April 2008. On May 21, 2009, YouTube received 20 hours of video content per minute.  

58. Of the 13 million music files available on the web, 52,000 tunes accounted for 80 per cent of download.  

59. By 2012 it has been said that there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet. In most of Asia, mobile phones are leading the way to internet connectivity.  

60. The term Deep Web is used to refer to a wealth of information that is at least 400 to 550 times larger than the searchable Internet. This content consisting of most of the information on today's active websites is stored in databases which are invisible to search engines. this information contains data such as prices of items, airfares and other stuff that will never surface unless somebody queries for that information. The Deep Web and all that hidden information is what prevents search engines from giving us a definitive answer to simple questions like "How much is the cheapest airfare from New York to London next Thursday?"  

61. In a recent survey conducted by security specialist Symantec of the 100 most unsafe and malware infested web sites, 48 per cent of them feature adult content.  

62. Naked women make up 80 per cent of all the pictures on the internet.  

63. The online population of Facebook, 250 million users worldwide, and MySpace, which had 100 million accounts by 2007, are bigger than the populations of many nations worldwide. On April 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in terms of monthly visits.  

64. It took the web only 4 years to reach 50 million users. Radio took 38 years while TV made it in 13 years.  

65. Amazon.com was formerly known as Cadabra.com  

66. A blogger Kyle MacDonald, made history in 2006 by trading his way to glory. Starting out with a paper clip, he traded his way to increasingly costlier items and of value including a year’s rent and an afternoon with the Alice Cooper. He eventually traded a film role for a two-storey farmhouse Kipling, Saskatchewan.  

67. Bit torrents, depending on location, are estimated to consume 27 to 55 per cent of all internet bandwidth as of February, 2009.  

68. Domain registration was free until the National Science foundation decided to change this on September 14th, 1995.  

69. It is estimated that one of every eight married couples started by meeting online.  

70. Lee Stein invented the first online electronic bank in 1994 entitled, "First Virtual Holdings".  

71. The Internet is roughly 35% English with the Chinese at 14%. Yet only 13% of world's population i.e. 812 million are Internet users as of December 2004. North America has the highest continental concentration with 70 per cent of the populace using the Internet.  

72. Official statistics in the UK say that 29 per cent of women have never used the internet, but only 20 per cent of men.  

73. In 1995, Bob Metcalfe coined the phrase 'The Web might be better than sex'.  

74. Iceland has the highest percentage of the Internet users at 68 per cent. The United States stands at 56%. 34% of all Malaysians us the Internet while only eight per cent of Jordanians are connected, 4% of Palestinians; 0.6% of Nigerians and 0.1% of Tajikistanis.  

75. Employees at Google are encouraged to use 20 per cent of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.  

76. Afghanistan has a combined telephone penetration of 3.4 per cent.  

77. Someone is a victim of a cybercrime every 10 seconds and it is on the rise.  

78. The first search engine for Gopher files was called Veronica, created by the University of Nevada System Computing Services group.
   79. The Electrohippies Collective (Ehippies) is an international group of internet activists based in Oxfordshire, England, whose purpose is to express disapproval of governmental policies of mass media censorship and control of the Internet "in order to provide a 'safe environment' for corporations to do their deals."

80. Luking is to read through mailing lists or news groups and get a feel of the topic before posting one's own message.  

81. The Internet was called the 'Galactic Network' in memos written by MIT's JCR Licklider in 1962.  

82. The first internet worm was created by Robert Morris, Jr, and attacked more than 6,000 Internet hosts.  

83. SRS stands for Shared Registry Server which is the central system for all accredited registrars to access, register and control domain names.  

84. The search engine Lycos is named after Lycosidae which is a Latin name for the wolf spider family.  

85. It is believed that Subhash Ghai's film Taal was the first bollywood movie to be widely promoted on the internet.  

86. Rob Glasser's company Progressive Networks launched the RealAudio system on April 10, 1995.  

87. Butter Jeeves of the internet site AskJeeves.com made its debut as a large helium balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 2000.  

88. In Beijing, the internet community has coined the word 'Chortal' as a shortened version of 'Chinese' Portal.

89. Satyam Online became the first private ISP in December 1998 to offer internet connection in India.  

90. In 1946, the Merriam Webster defined a computer as a person who tabulates numbers, accountant, actuary, book keeper.  

91. In 1969, advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) went online connecting four major US universities. The idea was to have a backup in case a military attack destroyed conventional communication system. 
  92. The first ever ISP was CompuServe which still exists under AOL, Timer Warner. 
  93. Jeff Bezos while starting his business could not name his website Cadabra due to copyright issues. He later named it amazon.com.

94. The longest phone cable is a submarine cable called FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe). It spans 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom and can carry 600,000 calls at a time.

95. The first coin operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in first century A.D.

 

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Microsoft Windows Version History

1. 1983-Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows November 10, 1983.
2. 1985-Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November 20, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00.
3. 1987-Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00.
4. 1987-Microsoft Windows/386 or Windows 386 is introduced December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00.
5. 1988-Microsoft Windows/286 or Windows 286 is introduced June, 1988 and is initially sold for $100.00.
6. 1990-Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 22 1990. Microsoft Windows 3.0 full version was priced at $149.95 and the upgrade version was priced at $79.95.
7. 1991-Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM, Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT.
8. 1991-Microsoft Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.0a with multimedia was released October, 1991.
9. 1992-Microsoft Windows 3.1 was released April, 1992 and sells more than 1 Million copies within the first two months of its release.
10. 1992-Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released October, 1992.
11. 1993-Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released July 27, 1993.
12. 1993-Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1 is released December 31, 1993.
13. 1993-The number of licensed users of Microsoft Windows now totals more than 25 Million.
14. 1994-Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released February, 1994.
15. 1994-Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September 21, 1994.
16. 1995-Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 was released May 30, 1995.
17. 1995-Microsoft Windows 95 was released August 24, 1995 and sells more than 1 Million copies within 4 days.
18. 1995-Microsoft Windows 95 Service Pack 1 (4.00.950A) is released February 14, 1996.
19. 1996-Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 was released July 29, 1996.
20. 1996-Microsoft Windows 95 (4.00.950B) aka OSR2 with FAT32 and MMX support is released August 24, 1996.
21. 1996-Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 was released November, 1996.
22. 1997-Microsoft Windows CE 2.0 was released November, 1997.
23. 1997-Microsoft Windows 95 (4.00.950C) aka OSR2.5 is released November 26, 1997.
24. 1998-Microsoft Windows 98 was released June, 1998.
25. 1998-Microsoft Windows CE 2.1 was released July, 1998.
26. 1998-In October of 1998 Microsoft announced that future releases of Windows NT would no longer have the initials of NT and that the next edition would be Windows 2000.
27. 1999-Microsoft Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) was released May 5, 1999.
28. 1999-Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 was released 1999.
29. 2000-On January 4th at CES Bill Gates announces the new version of Windows CE will be called Pocket PC.
30. 2000-Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000.
31. 2000-Microsoft Windows ME (Millennium) released June 19, 2000.
32. 2001-Microsoft Windows XP is released October 25, 2001.
33. 2001-Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is released March 28, 2003.
34. 2003-Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is released March 28, 2003.
35. 2003-Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2003) for Itanium 2 systems is released on March 28, 2003.
36. 2003-Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003 is released on December 18, 2003.
37. 2004-Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12, 2004.
38. 2005-Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005.
39. 2005-Microsoft announces it's next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista on July 23, 2005.
40. 2006-Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista to corporations on November 30, 2006.
41. 2007-Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to the general public January 30, 2007.
42. 2009-Microsoft releases Windows 7 October 22, 2009.
43. 2012-Microsoft releases Windows 8 October 26, 2012.

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Top 10 richest in Tech

1.Bill Gates 

Net Worth: $66 billion 

Bill Gates, the planet's most generous person, has given away $28 billion so far. Gates' net worth climbed $7 billion since last August on the strength of Microsoft shares, which rose 20%, and on gains from investments in private equity, bonds and stocks such as hygiene tech firm Ecolab and Mexican TV broadcaster Televisa. He continues to sell shares of Microsoft--he shed 80 million in the past year, about 15% of his stake--so that now just one-fifth of his net worth stems from the software company he cofounded 37 years ago.

2.Larry Ellison

Net Worth: $41 billion

Larry Ellison, America's third richest man, bought the 141-square mile Hawaiian island of Lanai in June for a reported $500 million or more. Despite Oracle's ongoing legal battles with some of its biggest competitors:, SAP, HP and Google, the company's stock has climbed 20% since late August 2011, adding $8 billion to Ellison's net worth.

3.Jeff Bezos

Net Worth: $23.2 billion

Jeff Bezos' online book giant Amazon.com is now the world's largest internet retailer of any kind, reporting over $48 billion in 2011 sales. Bezos' net worth is up $4.1 billion from August 2011. He founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later. Amazon didn't turn a profit until late 2001. 

4.Larry Page

Net Worth: $20.3 billion 

In April, Larry Page celebrated one year as Google's CEO. Despite losing his voice from a mysterious ailment and disappearing from the public spotlight earlier in the summer, Page has returned to the helm of the search giant. His fortune is up $3.6 billion over the past year due to a nearly 30% climb in the price of Google shares.

5.Sergey Brin

Net Worth: $20.3 billion

While Google cofounder Sergey Brin focuses on futuristic innovations as head of special projects at the company, a nearly 30% surge in the price of Google stock in the past year lifted his net worth by $3.6 billion to $20.3 billion. He recently unveiled Project Glass at the tech giant's I/O developer conference. His presentation, which featured sky divers and BMX bikers, highlighted the capabilities of the augmented reality glasses, which will allow users to do everything from chat on video to view Google Maps while moving.

6.Steve Ballmer

Net Worth: $15.9 billion

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft since January 2000, is intent on proving the world's biggest software firm is keeping pace with its nimbler, younger rivals. In the past several months he's unveiled a significantly new desktop and mobile operating system (Windows 8), a new tablet (Surface) to take on the iPad, and switched clunky old Hotmail to a Webbier version of Outlook. His fortune is up $2 billion since August 2011.

7.Paul Allen

Net Worth: $15 billion

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been enjoying an upswing in wealth and business activity lately. Shares of the software maker he started with Bill Gates have risen this year, but the real winners are his private investment portfolio (media, energy and tech) and his years-long effort to rehab downtown Seattle's South Lake Union district, an urbanista paradise where more luxury rentals are going up and companies are moving in.

8.Michael Dell

Net Worth: $14.6 billion

Twenty-eight years after founding Dell from his college dorm room, Michael Dell finds his computer company at a crossroads. The Texas-born mogul is intent on transforming the struggling PC maker (stock has stumbled more than a third from its March high this year) into a storage, server and software business. His fortune is down $400 million since August 2011.ntals are going up and companies are moving in.

9.Laurene Powell Jobs

Net Worth: $11 billion

Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of legendary Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, inherited a fortune after Jobs died in October 2011 that makes her the wealthiest woman in Silicon Valley. She maintains control of living trusts under her late husband's name, among them the Steven P. Jobs Trust, which is the largest shareholder of Walt Disney Co., with a 7.7% stake. Powell Jobs was an angel investor in SocialCam, a mobile video sharing startup that was bought by Autodesk for $60 million in July.

10.Mark Zuckerberg

Net Worth: $9.4 billion

Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder and chief executive officer at Facebook, saw his fortune fall $8.1 billion following the precipitous drop of shares in the Menlo Park, Calif. social networking giant. Since Facebook debuted on the Nasdaq at $38 a share in May, the stock price has dipped below $20, dropping more than 48% as of late August. The decline isn't likely to change the hoodie-wearing CEO's lifestyle much. What's less clear: whether the 28-year-old executive, who married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan the day after the IPO and headed off for an Italian honeymoon, can right the ship and make Facebook into a winning public company. Speaking at a TechCrunch conference in September, Zuckerberg noted, "I personally would rather be underestimated."

Source : Forbes

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